EPSRC Star Academic Proposal

建设新的研究能力，以实现支持电力工程和能源等优先领域学科健康的国家战略目标。这样的新能力将用于开展研究，并支持英国行业创新的增长。这是一个需要重大投资以提供足够的广度和深度以增加预期研究影响的项目，因此财团合作伙伴(除EPSRC外)包括劳斯莱斯、ScottishPower、国家电网和斯特拉斯克莱德大学。这项拟议的投资承认，英国高等学校电力工程专业的学术人员已经严重减少。我们还认识到，为了保持和发展电力研究能力，有必要采取高等院校、行业和政府在这一领域的投资和承诺的联合方法。支持具有必要临界质量的研究中心进行基础研究、战略研究和应用研究被视为一项战略要务。英国工业和社会将从可持续的、活跃的、国际领先的电力工程和能源系统研究基地中受益匪浅。除了电力研究基础的侵蚀之外，本科生和研究生人口的严重减少，新的活跃的学术人员可以帮助解决(参见。最近的IEE审查和随后建立的电力学院)。值得注意的是，这些原则也与EPSRC科学和创新奖计划中出现的后续目标完全一致。因此，拟议的方案纳入了主要的产业资金，为补充第一轮EPSRC科学和创新奖提供了额外的价值和范围。每个工业合作伙伴的资金承诺以及Strathclyde的直接承诺将在研究范围、规模和临界质量方面为拟议的EPSRC Star投资提供显著的附加值。

To build new research capability in order to address nationally strategic objectives for the support of health of discipline in priority areass such as electrical power engineering and energy. Such new capacity would be intended to undertake research and support the growth of UK industry innovation. This is a project that requires major investments to provide adequate breadth and depth in order to increase prospective research impacts, therefore consortium partners (apart from EPSRC) include Rolls-Royce, ScottishPower, National Grid and Strathclyde University. The proposed investment acknowledges that there has been a serious reduction of academic staff specialising in electrical power engineering in UK-HEIs. It is also recognised that, in order to retain and develop electrical power research capability, there is a need to take a joint HEI, industry & government approach to investment and commitment in this area. The support of research centres with the necessary critical mass to undertake basic, strategic and applied research is seen as a strategic imperative. UK industry and society will benefit greatly from a sustainable, active, internationally leading research base in electrical power engineering and energy systems. In addition to the erosion of the electrical power research base, there is a serious reduction in the undergraduate and postgraduate populations that new, active academic staff could help to address (c.f. recent IEE review and subsequent establishment of the Power Academy). It is important to note that these principles are also entirely consistent with subsequent objectives that have emerged in the EPSRC Science and Innovation Awards scheme. As such, the proposed programme, incorporating major industrial funding, provides additional value and scope to complement the first round EPSRC Science and Innovation Awards. The funding commitment from each of the industrial partners along with direct Strathclyde commitments will provide significant added value to the proposed EPSRC Star investments in terms of research scope, scale and critical mass.